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As part of the 2025 Fiscal Year budget, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law significant legislation affecting the New York City and State rental market, which is highlighted below: Good Cause Eviction Law- As of April...more
In the real estate field, surprises are less welcome. Owners expect tenants to pay their rent and follow lease requirements, and tenants expect owners to maintain rental units and common areas and to provide the agreed...more
On Jan. 25, 2023, the Biden administration announced new federal actions impacting renters and housing market participants throughout the nation. In connection with this announcement, the Biden administration released its...more
The long moratorium on most evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the de facto shutdown of the court system for civil matters, caused most California landlords to defer unlawful detainer and related...more
In a recent decision, the Second District Court of Appeal indirectly addressed an issue that comes up from time to time in landlord-tenant litigation: whether the landlord must produce in discovery documents relating to other...more
Eviction / Default Judgment / Due Process: Tenant was denied due process when court prematurely and summarily entered an eviction judgment without hearing case despite tenant’s repeated, prompt, and substantive filings in...more
On July 20, 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to the San Francisco Commercial Eviction Moratorium Ordinance (Moratorium Amendment) codifying a legal presumption to potentially...more
On Saturday, May 30, 2020, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 142 and North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley issued Emergency Directives 17, 18, and 19. Professionals in the North...more
Mayor de Blasio Signs New NYC Law Limiting the Enforcement of Certain Personal Lease Guaranties - As an update to our previous issue, on May 26, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law the New York City Council’s Bill...more
With just a few days left in May, apartment owners, management companies, and residents are set to deal with another month of rents due in a global pandemic. The good news (I hope) is that states are starting the process of...more
Nevada recently joined the rapidly-increasing list of states suspending or barring eviction and foreclosure actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. By both executive directives and judiciary orders, almost all foreclosure and...more
Given the spate of government-imposed business shutdowns designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, many retailers, restaurants, dental practices and other service providers deemed “non-essential” have experienced forced...more
The world-wide declared pandemic... is impacting daily life, both personally and professionally. Real estate transactions are being delayed, projections altered and consumer-oriented businesses impacted. While small...more
In Cogdill v. Sylva Supply Company, Inc., filed May 7, 2019, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held in a split decision and as a matter of first impression that a right of first refusal contained in a written lease...more
With the Governor's signature on Senate Bill 608 on February 28, Oregon became the first state with a statewide rent control law. The new law took effect March 1 and is applicable only to residential tenancies. The new law...more
A Florida landlord recently learned that “self-help” is not allowed for evicting a tenant, even if the parties’ lease says it is. In Palm Beach Florida Hotel and Office Building Limited Partnership v. Nantucket...more
When a retail (or office) tenant falls behind in its rent payments, landlords or their representatives frequently ask what appears to be a simple question: “Should I accept the tenant’s rent payment?” The answer is not at all...more
There almost always comes a time when a landlord has had all it can take from a problem tenant and decides it’s time to pull the trigger to start the eviction process. Most often, the tenant has built up a hefty balance in...more